110+ Reid Hoffman Quotes On Ai, Education And Diversity

Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn and as an investor in many tech companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, and Zynga. He is also a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners and the host of the podcast Masters of Scale. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Reid Hoffman on leadership, ai, education.

Top 10 Reid Hoffman Quotes

1. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
2. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
3. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.
4. Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
5. Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
6. Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
7. The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people
8. Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.
9. You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
10. Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Reid Hoffman Short Quotes

• Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
• We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning
• It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
• Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.
• I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
• Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
• ...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
• It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.
• Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.
• Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

Reid Hoffman Quotes About Future

I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede. — Reid Hoffman

Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future. — Reid Hoffman

The key thing for all businesses, and especially of course technology businesses or businesses that employ technology as a key kind of strategic advantage, is you always have to be investing in the future. — Reid Hoffman

Economic tough times are great times to be investing in the future. — Reid Hoffman

The key issue when you're looking at cost cutting is to always plan for the future. — Reid Hoffman

The future is sooner and stranger than you think. — Reid Hoffman

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do. — Reid Hoffman

I wish to be focused on kind of the business stuff I'm doing, how do I contribute to our economic progress, how do I help create a future for American industry, American middle class, these kind of things. Those things actually really matter to me. — Reid Hoffman

I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, "OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?" — Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman Quotes About Networker

Help the people in your network. And let them help you. — Reid Hoffman

I was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's key. And most of the advice tends to be, you know, discover your strengths, build up your resume, get a title, all of that stuff pales in comparison. — Reid Hoffman

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you. — Reid Hoffman

What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder. — Reid Hoffman

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something. — Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman Famous Quotes And Sayings

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground. — Reid Hoffman

People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates. — Reid Hoffman

One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later. — Reid Hoffman

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears. — Reid Hoffman

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters. — Reid Hoffman

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions. — Reid Hoffman

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing. — Reid Hoffman

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. — Reid Hoffman

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world. — Reid Hoffman

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning. — Reid Hoffman

One of the really key things to look at in terms of crafting strategy when you're in an economic crises is how do you maximize essentially your liquidity position? Your ability to both take kind of profits and revenues and business and then convert that into a stronger lead. And so those companies that can do that can actually, you know, get a march on their competitors. — Reid Hoffman

People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too? — Reid Hoffman

At Silicon Valley, I'm extremely sympathetic to the revolutionary response. I not only agree with it emotionally. I agree with it practically. And the only thing I disagree with is, I don't think Donald Trump is that. Trump is blow it up for no good reason at all. You want to actually do revolution with a target, with an idea, with building a new system. — Reid Hoffman

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often. — Reid Hoffman

One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new. — Reid Hoffman

The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing. — Reid Hoffman

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes. — Reid Hoffman

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. — Reid Hoffman

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective. — Reid Hoffman

Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things that most people do in terms of managing risk, that's actually bad thinking, is they think they can manage risk to zero. Everything has some risk to it. You know, you drive your car down the street, a drunk driver may hit you. So what you're doing is you're actually trying to get to an acceptable level of risk. — Reid Hoffman

The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards. — Reid Hoffman

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite. — Reid Hoffman

When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true. — Reid Hoffman

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important. — Reid Hoffman

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up — Reid Hoffman

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to. — Reid Hoffman

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days. — Reid Hoffman

I find that the interesting challenges, because there's obvious things where, you know, don't be unethical, don't be evil, you know, don't break the law, don't do immoral things, those are all straightforward and don't create ethical dilemmas. The thing that's interesting is when you actually have multiple interests at stake and you have to kind of navigate your way through it. — Reid Hoffman

It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context. — Reid Hoffman

All human beings are entrepreneurs. — Reid Hoffman

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards. — Reid Hoffman

During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes. — Reid Hoffman

[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system. — Reid Hoffman

Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, but also be smart enough that you are essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries. — Reid Hoffman

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges. — Reid Hoffman

The actual, the forming of ties with a group of people around you where they help you grow as a professional, solve problems, get opportunities, and you help them, is actually the constitutive base of the foundation of a strong, modern career. — Reid Hoffman

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential. — Reid Hoffman

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear. — Reid Hoffman

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth. — Reid Hoffman

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not. — Reid Hoffman

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. — Reid Hoffman

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning. — Reid Hoffman

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here. — Reid Hoffman

The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind of accelerating into the future. And when you're in trouble, the question is, what are the techniques that you can, you know, trim, refinance, sell, et cetera, in order to get this business back to that characteristic. — Reid Hoffman

We have made a huge amount of progress over the last 50 years by enabling trade, by enabling kind of collaboration and learning. And actually, in fact, when you look at your average 30-year-old today, they're much better off than a 30-year-old 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because of progress in technology and health care and all the rest of this. — Reid Hoffman

A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets. — Reid Hoffman

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily. — Reid Hoffman

We understand that most of the middle class doesn't know what to do, doesn't feel like they have economic progress, and [Hillary Clinton] goes, "OK, I realize that's my top agenda item. That's the thing I need to do." — Reid Hoffman

If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there. — Reid Hoffman

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace. — Reid Hoffman

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't. — Reid Hoffman

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together. — Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. — Reid Hoffman

One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful. — Reid Hoffman

The CEO's job is always about leadership. It's about leadership in a vision, in terms of where you're going, it's about making sure that you have the right organization and staff, and that you have kind of clearly communicated what some of the plays are and what some of the goals are in terms of the business and how do you organize together in order to make that happen. — Reid Hoffman

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake. — Reid Hoffman

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that. — Reid Hoffman

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user. — Reid Hoffman

I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster." — Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent. — Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses. — Reid Hoffman

Democracy is always frustrating. — Reid Hoffman

The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future. — Reid Hoffman

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform. — Reid Hoffman

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it. — Reid Hoffman

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is. — Reid Hoffman

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. — Reid Hoffman

One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?"This is part of what we learned from the 1920s. — Reid Hoffman

You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea. — Reid Hoffman

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person. — Reid Hoffman

I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive. — Reid Hoffman

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling. — Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources. — Reid Hoffman

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business. — Reid Hoffman

I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process. — Reid Hoffman

Life Lessons by Reid Hoffman

1. Reid Hoffman's success as an entrepreneur emphasizes the importance of taking risks and being willing to fail in order to achieve success.
2. He has also demonstrated the value of networking and forming strong relationships with other entrepreneurs and investors.
3. Finally, his work has shown that success is often the result of hard work, dedication, and the ability to think outside the box.